Exactly one year ago, Hope was living on the streets of Nigeria, full of worms, on the brink of starvation and cast out from his community accused of being a “witch”.This image of Danish philanthropist Anja Ringgren Lovén giving water to Hope was shared around the earth. Hope was taken to the African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation (ACAEDF), which Lovén founded along with her husband David.Now, new pictures shared by Lovén on her behalf Facebook page reveal remarkable transformation he has been through. “On the 30 of January 2016 I went on a rescue mission with David Emmanuel Umem, Nsidibe Orok and our Nigerian team,” Lovén wrote on Myspace. “A rescue mission that went viral, and today it’s exactly 1 year ago the world came comprehend a young little boy called Hope.”
Lovén gave up everything she had in Denmark to set up the foundation for Nigeria’s so-called “witch children”.She said she first saw the problems created by superstition in rural Nigeria when she traveled there alone three years ago and met children “who seemed to be tortured and beaten almost to death because they were accused of being witches and therefore left alone at work.”
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